Bernie Sanders

A remarkable thing just happened in the chaotic race for the Republican presidential nomination, and it wasn't the rise of Donald Trump. It was the impressive numbers reported for the first stage of the GOP's "money primary": the competition to raise the hundreds of millions of dollars a White House campaign requires. Jeb Bush's campaign and its affiliated organizations had raised more than $114 million by the end of June. That's more than any non-incumbent has ever raised this early in a campaign. At this point four years ago, Mitt Romney had raised about $30 million. A Bush aide said the early haul was intended to send a dose of "shock and awe"...

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A remarkable thing just happened in the chaotic race for the Republican presidential nomination, and it wasn't the rise of Donald Trump. It was the impressive numbers reported for the first stage of the GOP's "money primary": the competition...

Bernie Sanders is on a roll. The independent socialist from Vermont, still not a registered Democrat, is drawing big crowds with his gruff populism: 2,500 people in Council Bluffs, Iowa; 7,500 in Portland, Me.; 10,000 in Madison, Wis.He's raised more than...

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Topic A is the...

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Bernie Sanders may not have the big-money donors behind in him in the 2016 presidential race, but the liberal Vermont senator is showing he can raise plenty from regular people, who are lining in up in impressive numbers to give.
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At the first glimpse of the rumpled 73-year-old senator from Vermont, the standing-room-only crowd at a historic inn here on Sunday morning erupted — leaping up, waving signs and breaking into chants of "Bernie, Bernie, Bernie!"
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What does Bernie Sanders think of the media’s performance so far this campaign? Barely adequate. The huge speaking fees Bill and Hillary Clinton have accepted? Wrong question, he says; you should be asking why anyone pays them. How about primary...

What does Bernie Sanders think of the media’s performance so far this campaign? Barely adequate. The huge speaking fees Bill and Hillary Clinton have accepted? Wrong question, he says; you should be asking why anyone pays them. How about primary...